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Are your innovation efforts feeling a little sluggish? Are you looking for a way to jumpstart your innovation efforts? Or just to get started on the right foot?

Whether your innovation program is already an established runaway success that’s exceeding your expectations or you’re just getting started, working with an innovation coach can get you off to a great start or bring you the external perspectives to keep your innovation program fresh and evolving.

To make innovation coaching easy to purchase, I’ve come up with an introductory service to hopefully fit within your purchasing authority and your budget.

An Innovation Coaching investment of only $9,999.98 + expenses (or two payments of $4,999.99 + expenses) will get you a three day engagement including:

A cross-functional and/or cross-site innovation maturity study using my 50 question innovation audit, including analysis of the results, and presentation of the findings

One or two days on-site:

Seeing where and how your innovation happens

Conducting interviews to understand the structure of your innovation programs, processes, and other key elements of your innovation infrastructure

Walking through past innovation successes and failures

The balance of the three days will then be spent analyzing the on-site observations and creating a set of actionable recommendations

A 10% discount on any Disruptive Innovation Toolkit™ site license purchases for your organization

Together we’ll accelerate your innovation efforts towards success and an infrastructure capable of sustaining continuous innovation. Forward-thinking organizations that haven’t begun an innovation program or a focus on innovation and want to get off to a strong start will be able to leverage this Innovation Coaching service too.

Still not sure whether you need any innovation coaching?

Then perhaps you’ll find the following list helpful in making up your mind:

Ten Signs You Need an Innovation Intervention

Nobody can articulate your definition of innovation (or you don’t have one)

People struggle to tell the story of one or more innovations launched to wide adoption by the organization

Most of what passes as innovation inside the organization would actually be classified as improvements (not innovation) by people outside the organization

The organization no longer makes external innovation perspectives available to a wide audience

Nobody takes the time to participate in our innovation efforts anymore

Your organization is unable to accept insights and ideas from outside the organization and develop them into concepts that can be scaled to wide adoption

Innovation program leadership has difficulty getting time on the CEO’s calendar any more

Your innovation team is trying to do all of the innovating instead of helping to accelerate the innovation efforts of others

Your pace of innovation is slower than the organizations you compete with for market share, donations, votes, etc.

What is an innovation intervention?

An innovation intervention is a professionally directed, education process resulting in a face to face meeting of consultants, leaders and/or managers with the organization in trouble with innovation. People who struggle with innovation are often in denial about their situation and unwilling to seek treatment. They may not recognize the negative effects their behavior has on themselves and others. Intervention helps the person make the connection between their use of innovation and the problems in their organization. The goal of intervention is to present the innovation user with a structured opportunity to accept help and to make changes before things get even worse.

This may be a somewhat tongue in cheek adaptation of a definition from the substance abuse context*, but it’s almost scary how much I didn’t have to change in the switching of contexts. My Innovation Coaching service serves as a great innovation intervention for those whose innovation programs have fallen short of their stated goals or have gone completely off the rails.

*Thanks to the NCADD (National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.) for the inspiration

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